sensitiveness

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Parts II and III contain specific suggestions for rearing individualistic children possessed of the four qualities set forth as desirable in Part I�Vitality, Courage, Sensitiveness and Intelligence.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sensitiveness of Cotyledons to contact.—This subject does not possess much interest, as it is not known that sensitiveness of this kind is of any service to seedling plants.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles

Sensitiveness is a faculty pertaining to the spiritual nature, and is acute in proportion as that spiritual nature dominates the physical senses.

From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson

Sensitiveness is found even in the Particles of Inorganic Substance, and may be regarded as the first glimmerings of thought.

From A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga by Atkinson, William Walker

Sensitiveness in her demanded the accomplishment of her wishes as imperiously as, in organisms of another sort, hunger claims satisfaction for the body.

From The Argonauts by Curtin, Jeremiah